The fair’s title refers the 54 countries on the African continent. That moniker alludes to the event’s educational mission. “A common misconception is that African art is invariable or uniform.

1-54’s ninth fair of contemporary African Art features 26 galleries, half of which are making their New York debuts this year. ... a Black body in unlikely art-historical contexts.

The first day of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair had a strong turnout at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea. Throughout the fair, the most pervasive style of work was portraiture.

Those memories began to come back to me as I walked to the ninth annual 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair ... ever be inclusive of Black artists, but the art on display at 1-54 made me feel as ...

African masquerade ensembles are recognizably carnivalesque, yet not aligned with Carnival as we know it. The exquisite, ...

ZuCot Art Gallery, founded by Troy Taylor in 2009, is located in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill section. It is one of the largest African American-owned fine art galleries in the Southeast.

Artist Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” would have been the first solo show by a contemporary Black artist at the Portrait ...

Ancient Egypt’s pyramids were pinnacles of African invention and built by slave labor. Depending on the spin, the basketball speaks of Black athletic success or the exploitation of Black athletes.

Ms. Gant and her co-curator, Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, curator of African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, spent the better part of the last six years organizing the exhibition, locating out-of ...

A vistior to the Philadelphiia Museum of Art stops to gaze at Thomas J Price's larger-than-life sculpture of a woman, titled ''As Sounds Turn to Noise.'' It is part of an exhibit, ''The Time Is Always ...

A groundbreaking digital exhibition and documentary about Black identity debuted during Soul Basel and Miami Art Week via The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD ...